Laravel sitemap

A dynamic sitemap creator for Laravel. Runs from a simple config and can be used to create multiple sitemaps. Comes in handy when running multiple domains and/or multiple models.

How does it work

composer install noprotocol/laravel-sitemap
php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Noprotocol\LaravelSitemap\SitemapServiceProvider"

Open the config/sitemap.php file and edit it. An example has been supplied

<?php

return [
	/*********************** EXAMPLE ************************
	'sites' => [
		1 => [
			// namespace to request from
			'\App\Page' => [ 

				// query eloquent inject
				'query' => function($query) { 
					return $query;
				},

				// the route to call
				'route' => 'page',

				// the database column where the slug (if any) resides in
				'slug' => 'slug',

				// the database column where the last updated date resides in
				'updated' => 'updated_at',
			],

			// urls that are not generated from DB are run straight through the xml generator
			'MANUAL' => [ 
				[
					'loc' => 'http://www.site.com/',
					'lastmod' => '2016-02-25',
				],
			],
		],

		2 => [
			'\App\Article' => [
				'query' => function($query) {
					return $query->where('something', '=', 'something');
				},
				'route' => 'page',

				// if the url consists of multiple parts, define them as array
				'slug' => [ 

					// first part of the slug, but it needs some functionality
					'category' => function($slug) { // the function to run with the url part before adding
						return str_slug($slug);
					},
					'slug' => false, // no function will run on this url part
				],
				'updated' => 'updated_at',
			],
		],
	]
	***************************** END EXAMPLE *****************************/

	'sites' => [
		1 => [
			// urls that are not generated from DB are run straight through the xml generator
			'MANUAL' => [ 
				[
					'loc' => 'http://www.site.com/',
					'lastmod' => '2016-02-25',
				],
			],
		],
	]

];

To the routes file add:

Route::get('sitemap.php', '\Noprotocol\LaravelSitemap\Http\Controllers\SitemapController@index');

As of this point you have a working sitemap. You will find the default sitemap on /sitemap.php

Why sitemap.php and not sitemap.xml

First off, crawlers don't care seeing you have to supply the filename to them. But we have seen instances where the php server doesn't spin when requesting a .xml.

Customizing

If you're feeling frisky or want to change settings you can create your own controller and point the route there.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Noprotocol\LaravelSitemap\Sitemap;
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use App\Http\Requests;

class SitemapController extends Controller
{

    private $sitemap;

    public function __construct(Sitemap $sitemap) 
    {
        $this->sitemap = $sitemap;
    }


    /**
     * Display a listing of the resource.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
     */
    public function index()
    {
        return response($this->sitemap->init(1)->get(false), '200')
            ->header('Content-Type', 'text/xml');
    }
}

Options

When you're building the response you have a few options:

No cache, create a new one every request:

$this->sitemap->init(1)->get(false);

Set an alternate interval (always, hourly, daily (default), weekly, monthly, yearly, never):

setInterval([interval])

Set the time to cache the result:

cache($minutes)

Everything else is set in the config.